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Book Review of The Book of Dead Birds

The Book of Dead Birds
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Ava Sing Lo has been accidentally killing her Mother's birds. Now she leaves home to volunteer to help invironmental activists save thousands of birds. Helen, her mother, has been haunted by her past. Helen was drawn into prostitution fon a segregated American army base in Korea.

The book captures a young woman's struggle to come to terms with her mother's past while she searches for her own place in the world